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STRANDED IN HONGKONG, TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY

MBER 25 1918.

DAY BY DAY.

OUR DAY*

THE MAN WHO DESIRES ANY- How Hongkong will Celebrate It. don THING INORDINATELYIB." "SOUND DISQUIE IED WITHL BLUSELPA

The Feelings et à Delayed Passenger.

Tomorrow's Anniversary.

OBMS last night, to refer to

the bouring question so far sa it

Though they have not been very

Nearly dentary ago. King Frederick William the Third was trying to make a grOst Laation of the Prumias people, and found that he had pot mone in which he hoped to achieve his enough to carry on the warn by

To-morrow in" thu, anniversary much in evidence, Committees A visitor to the Colony, who affecta Europesus, suggesting that of the Belief of Lucknow (1857.) and Sub Committees have forbes experienced great difficulty

considerable time past been do obtaining a presage to travel

it (should be brought up at a fortbooming public meeting. The ides, bonster, was given cold donabe by Dr. Earle on the

"The" Dollar"

on demand today - was 8. 3/16d.js

3

The opening rate of the dollaring large amount of work in South, sends us the following abfot be asked the women of

making arrangements for the

Prumis to bring them jewelry of summary of his feelings on the gold and silver to be maited into celebration of "Our Day" next month, and now it is possible in The resolve to leave Hongkong Miny women brought all

subjeti some measure to indicate just somehow. what preparations have been

ornament of gald or silver they trinkets they had, and made and some others that are

Health Return.

No To a Correspondent.,

"Bookworms"Your letter does

The friendly feeling towards shipping agents.

The search for a steamer.. The farther aro

search." The ditto, ad in frilum. The tired feeling. The headsche

The drinks

The recovery.

The resumption of search for

радике.

money for the nee of the

received in exchange en ornament of bror or iron ass taken of the King's gratitude. Thens brouse and iron ornimento all bore the |înscription, "I gave gold for iron, | 1813."

ground that "these things There was one fatal case of brooming political" and should spotted fever notified yesterday. not be taken up by the Society,

still to be arranged: At" all That, to our way of thinking, is

events one thing is certain, that not raise a question of suficient the Committeen have put their a very prescribed and distinctly public interest to warrant ite wits to work with good purpose, anfortunate attitude to adopt. insertion.

for it can be seen at a glance | In what respect the advocacy of Alice Memorial Hospital. that the programme drawn up adequats housing accommodation The Hon. Treasurer of the will ester for the tastes of every- for Earopenas can be regarded sa Alice Memorial and Affiliated one in the Colony, and, madreover, political" we fail to see. Surely Hospitals begs to scknowledge is of such a nature that dollars in

automobiles, taxis, and motor

The important part ⠀⠀ which one of the chief functions of the with thanks the following dous heaps will be coated out of the Ohurch is to interest itself in tions to the fands of the Hos eommanity at large. The proemer will sail next week.

The receipt of news that well known, bat sa exchange hases have played in, the war is Bocial conditions, and nothing pitals Mr. Pong Wei Ting, seeds, as in previous years, ill The collapse on hearing come.

points out that not everybody more. befits it than to do ita $100; Mr. Tang Chi Ngong, go to the Red Crow. That this

remember the part performed atmost to preserve home life in $100; Mr. Chan Chung Fang, Fand is perhaps the most The recovery after hearing by the good roads, which have car Colonice. As we have shown $50.

deserving of any which the war

steemer is doubly booked up.

rendered such signal service Sorrespondents are requested to observe the rule which in to-day's leading article, such

has created there is no question,

The passenger's opinion of

possible. For years, the fine Pequires them to forward their names and addresses with

The case in which & Chinees and it is equally certain that shipping agenta.

msondemised, well-kept highwayu Communications addressed to the Editor, not necessselly for life is being rendered impossible

in Hongkong through Europeans was charged before, Mr. JB Hongkong people will be as

The receipt of news that perhaps of Francs have been the admira- pablication, but as an evidence of their bona fides.

obtainable in

tion of travellers. To-day, many Dein is being political" for the possession of her pieces of win, liberal with their donations this Janua If it is

of two of silk, years as in the past. The

of these roads are"worn by the Oburah to move in matters of this came up again this morning. The Red Cross is in need of all the month of t

The request to call again insincerant trafic of war and are kind, then we can only wish for defendant failed to put in an funde that it can get, askin

torn by shot and shell. But if "Hongkong Telegraph" will big expansion of its political appearance, with the result that shown by the fact that the expend from one's friends what they anything less than perfection be The tired fasling after bearing the French had been content with his Worship ordered his bail of iture for 1917 wis £3,672,356.ould do. be as follows:- Daily issue-$36 per sunum. Weekly issue activities. $13 per annum.

$20 to be estreated, and a war Last year we were successful rant be issued for his arrest. -

in collecting in one way and Gambling Prosecution, another na less a sum than Twenty-three Chinese

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By Order,

*HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.“.

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1918.

THE SCARCITY OF HOUSES.

Hongkong assisting through

is

No Appearance.

0,45 (quivalent to 816,100)

Of the many war causes which

charged with gambling, at the

very gratifying sa every the mediam of the War Charities Police Court this morning, before one will agree-but this year the Share Mr. J. R. Wood, Inspector Grant Committee sim at considerably Committee nons deserving of support from such a prosecuted and Mr.K La increasing this smount, and we shipping port as this than the appeared for the defence. One of in Hongkong are not going to fail Dreadnought Hospital at Green- the defendants failed to put an the Committee in this laudable wich, which is controlled by the appearance at the Court and his purpose. We want the Red Croes Sssmen's Hospital Society. As bail of $5 was estreated. His to receive as much money as a a recognition of the generosity Worship remanded the other result of the celebrations se is of Hongkong to this institution cars till 11:30a.m. to-morrow,

possible, and it will not be the there has been erected therein

Export of Oplum.

fault of the Committee if the fare] AChinese was charged at Police, which they have draws up 19 not ja very handsome tablet, of which

have received a photographic Court this morning, before Mr. asised upon. reproduction from the Hon. Mr.. D. O. Wolfe, with being in

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The murderous feeling. The headache again. The drinks again.

The second recovery.

The calculation as to how long would love to walk t The dismissal of above project The rumour of a possible

siasmer.

The serot for agents steamer.

fore 1914, the war automobiles would have had small chance for speed or great usefulness, in- officer in the engineer corpe of the declared that, in an emergency, United States Army has recently

together, in a few days, on the it would be posible to get west front 200,000 automobiler, which would be able to rush of 800.000 men and their equipment over the French highwave to a37. weak spot in the line. Napoleon know that a good road was alwaya sa important military anset; 80 did the modern Frenchman.: "Bat there are apparently no-Napoléona. among the Japanese military men.

The discovery of same. The jubilation. Tha request for a passage. The "get off the earth feeling' while making stm8.

$29.

The arguments in favour of a

resepi The opinion of shipping agents The possible second-olsas para· The offer to take anything going.

The discovery steamer is a first cousin of Nash's Ark.

The permit to leave Hongkong. The waiting

E. R Hallifas. It is of a very unlawful possession of two table of morning there shall be a sale of passage. appropriate and striking design opium on board the ss. Taiping roses, as in previous years, and sip The Hongkong Telegraph. and bears the following words and attempting to export the military band is to parade the

"To commemorate a donation Fame without a permit from the

alreate. Io the afternoon s from funds publicly subacribed in Import and Exports Office.gymkhans is to be held at Happy Defendant put up the same Valley, with various sideshowe the Colony of Hongkong and pre- sented to this Hospital by the familier defence that someone and other things which will make Hongkong. War Charities Com- told him to carry the opiom." He people want to spend their money, mittee, ad a tribute to British se acquitted on the firet charge, Beet of all, an entertainment is to seamen, upon whose steadfast homes faed, 2200 or one be given in the Pablic Gardens bravery the Empire depende," mozth's labour, on the second in the evening, when there are At the foot is the following

to be bande playing, a fireworks verae :-

display, a performance by Chinese jugglers and a host of other things. At this stege it should be pointed out that the

of

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"Hail Mother; held me fast,

My praya slec

Under innumerable keels to-day

SWEEPS

Thy warships down the bay. `-

We have on many previous coessions dealt in detail with the memorial to Hongkong's gen seriousness of this problem. We return to it yet once again in the erosity in this regard, hope that by constant pegging away it will in due time reosïve the esruest consideration that it merita. In Singapore" recently, whore A Memento of Tank Week, conditions appear to be inclining in the same direction as here, a

count.

Too Lazy for Government Service.

A Ohinese was charged at the Polio Court this morning, before

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will

has

as to aleater's

The ramoor steamer will go via Tasmanis and Terra del Fargo.

The information steamer

come here at all. The statement steamer

existence.

The doubt

The exhis lond yell. The final beadschá... The next drink. The fiaal ditto. ̈* The repetition of almost all The don't-care-a-demo feeling.

A copy of the "Breechea Bible.”. write "G. B.,” in the Manchester? Guardian was sold recantly at: Bary in aid of the Lancashire Fusiliers' Prisoners of War Fund, There are names for editions of the sacred many editions or

text which "havs valus to the collector broades

of some "Wanted, 3-mewhere to Live." So ran the opening words an advertisement which appeared in the Telegraph yesterday,

pecaliarity in printing or tran- This was's genuine advertisement inserted by a Britisher who will

elation. The "Breeches Bible" is one of the earliest of such editions. perforce soon have to leave his residence by reason of the fact that it has been sold to Japanese, and who is now scouring the Colony

It is more commonly known sak the Geneva Bible, and use printed bigh and low in what reems a hopeless search for another house. We emphasise theɛs facta brosuse they typify the plight of numer- Yetguard and landerador to-morrow Mr. J.B. Wood, with treepsssing Portuguess community intends best commandested.

about the year 1560. Its name is explained by the substitution ons British residents. The experience of this advertiser could be

Bergt. Peet gave evidence that he holding a souvenir stall. It is matched by many more, until today the situation has become so

of the word 'breeches for sprana found the defendant sleeping in always a pleasure to feel in work

in Genesis iii. 7:*** They sawed acute as to be almost irremediable. Indeed, from all that we hear,

Hospitals of this character are boys qasriers. He questioned him of the kind which is to take place we doubt whether there is in the Colony to day a solitary vacant worthy of all the support that can and had him arrested. Defendant

fig leaves together and made house saited for European reaidesce that is of a rental within the be given them, and it is par was formerly in the Government'e

themselves breeches » (^nrous).". “Our Day" that the Porta- means of the average European. That is a truly alarming state of ticularly gratifying to learn that

goeae commanity is solidly

Ten years earlier (1551) was affairs, for the first essential in any Battlement which attracts Euro- the institutions managed by the employ but was discharged se behind the British in everything

printed the "Bag Bible." In peans to its shores is the: there should be a sufficiency of good Society named have received many that as he had been one night in the British Red Cross. They the above.

being lay. His Worship asid

which goes to making money for

this edition verse 5 în Palm rei.: read: "Thon shalt not need to housing accommodation. Hongkong dose not meet that require thousande of woanded, sick and ment, so far from it, that many residents who yearn for something injured naval and mercantile the cells be would discharge him have also stranged to hold rz fil,

be afraid for any baggas (terrors) by night." Another edition is approaching home life are foreid, against their will, into taking marine men since the war began. this time, but next time he would one st $1 a ticket and another st

be fired. roome in hotels. That, whatever may be the reason, and whoever It is good, also to feel that st

20 cents a ticket: "No less than}

called the "Printer's Bible." This Northern Chinese Charged.. is to blame, is a situation which should never have arisen.

Greenwich there is a permaneat

1.500 primes have already been Sequel to Snatching Convictions. the text in Pakim oxir 101, road- edition was pripled about 1702, charged on Ismand at the Police rails will be one cent

Three Northern Chinese were given towards this effort. Another

On a charge of receiving stolen ing "Printers (princes) have Court this morning, before Mr.

to $12 for a five-passenger fore Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, at the

property, a Chinees appeared be persecuted me without a esase." J. B. Wood, with bebeying in s.

Dodge car, pressuted by a Road and with being in nalafal Not content with all this magni- K Loappeared for the defence. interesting account of a gardening disorderly manner in Connaught British resident in the Colany: Police Court this morning. In A New Yorker now resident in spector Sim prosecuted and Mr. Switzerland has sent home an Commission investigated the matter and presented a most compre- We have fo band an interesting possession of weapons on Septem- hensive and valusbie report on the subject. That is a step which memento of the Far Eastern Tank ber 6 The second charge against font work, the Portuguese In connection with the case, some experiment he has carried out in we regard as being orgently necessary in Hongkong. By such Week Campaign in the shape of the second defendant was not Santa" are to give performances time ago torn Chinese were a desert of stones near Bestenberg. s procedure being adopted, at any rate the facts of the situation a

beautifully designed little preferred. Chief Detective Ins at the Victoria Theatre on dates the Government would be astounded at the developments thus eulte, and hopes of the China and said that the whole trouble arose theatrical performance is to be

the early part of November other for siding and abetting the topinambur--a vegetable ex- for sustebing a bangle, and the been the successful growing of revealed. What we have remarked before we reiterate; the prime Japan War Savings Association. over some opiam smuggling. Ho factor in the situation, bas been the way in which wesliby The booklet traces the history of afro said that the eccond man was given at the Theatre Royal. They were committed to trial at teppively cultivated in the Berna

the Oriminal Chiness and Japanese have "edged out" European residents from the movement, and shows bow picked up by Bergeant Ingham

As regards the Chinese com sentenced to five years hard century, but long since forgotten. Sessions and cantons in the eighteenth distriate where the former were, only a few years ago, unknown. For the Tank Week Campaign and the third men was found by munity, we cannot thank them labour and nine months hard He describes is so haring example, if we take Caine Road, Macdonnell Road, Robinson Road resulted in #1,249,162 being Ohinese constable in Lun Fat efficiently for all the trouble labour respectively. The defend bulb like the potato, and, in and Conduit Road, we should be surprised if it were found that subscribed throughout the Far Street, His Worship remanded and pains to which they rank was goldsmith. Mr. Lo sale, combining the fisvoar there is to-day a solitary house rented to Europeans; while of Exet for investment in Nations the case till Saturday st 11.30 gone to ensure ar Day" soked his Worship that the of asparagus and walrify. In Kennedy and Bowen Roads the same thing will soon be true if War Bonds. It is besutifully

being a success. They have gone defendant be dealt with sums general it can best be com present tendencies continur. The Japanese, especially, are buying printed, plentifully illuminated

to considerable expense ale marily. He azid that the charge pared with kohlrabi. An advant op the Colony's beat residences wholesale, while the European who with photographs, the whole A Chinese was summoned at The following gentlemen have is unable to parchese property can merely look on and wonder encased in 83 artistically design the Magiet soy this morning, generously paid the total cost of related ions that of one age of this plant is that where where he may find a roof under which to live. It is na racial issue ed over. It should be explained before, Ms. BD. C. Wolfe, with the making of the ropes not so serious as that of soluslly has once sequired foothold forward in this spirit. We merely state bare facte, which oan be expenses. Nevertheless the cost Inspector MoDanald prosecuted. PoE, Hon. Mr. Ho Fook, M./ ship remanded the case fill the ground will develop into which is thes raised; our last desire would be to bring the matter that the Association itself has no assaulting a Chinese constable. Ho Koi Tony, Hon. Mr. Lee Church the die Won smallest parts of root zemaining aubetantiated by the sceptical and be rouched for by the great of auch items se

Wednesday, telegramas, The defendant failed to put an Chen Ksi Ming, Mr. Cheu Tano majority of Britisbers here.

stationery and occasional advertis-appearance, with the result Shen and M. Chân Kang U. When matters become so obvionely serions as we have indicated, ing has to be me, so that the that his bail of $50 was It has also been arranged that it is high time for action. The patience of the average Britisher proceed of theesleof the pamphlet astreated. Inspector McDonald,

Ohinese theatricalu on in Hongkong, when considering the hoplessness of the present will be allocated to the Expenses in giving the facts of the case, scale shall be he'd and there cau (excluding hospitals) for the year also been gained from the bousing outlook, is almost exhausted. Yet nothing is done beyond Fand," The succem attending mić. that the constable be no question of doubt that the ended 20th October, 917, te ng of the big sogs

periodical effort through the medium of the Press to keep the the Tank Week held in the Fer was in Catchick Street on the result of all these preparations by present 1.81 per cent. matter to the front. There is supposed to be in existence in this East was so phenomenal as to day in question when be as the different sections of the com- expenditure Colony Constitutional Reform Association, one of whose objects justify the present Attempt to waren men carrying sorpe of manity will be a truly handsoms

could be put on record, and, as we have said before, we believe that booklet describing the efforts; re-pector Marlton prosecuted, and which will be announced later. In/charged at the Poliss Court, one One of his principal triumphs has

in to deal with matters of local internet. Barely auch questions as embody a permanent record of

this housing problems comza, within the scope of the activities of the mo nent, and it

such a body. Then why is to meeting of members onlied to discuss that

the imue and suggest remedies? At any rate, we look forward to plastno

the problem being fully debated when the Budget nomen before

Then perhape the ng public know in wh

Will PrOY

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Assaulting a Constable.

He challenged their right from and arrested the ma

hought was the pri

man intervened and

on a large, tion and management expenses

donation for the fands of the term Britab Bad Groen

The msgnificent performed

new balb so that in spring another harvat can and so on. In the nagh bourhood" valusble

the total bsd been known

to the